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Eh the thing is that Worse is Better and "Actually available to people in Operations without having to beg for permission" is the best of all. VBA (Visual Basi
by doubloon 3y ago
Eh the thing is that Worse is Better and "Actually available to people in Operations without having to beg for permission" is the best of all.
VBA (Visual Basic available in Excel and Outlook) had a lot of the same issues as low code, as in no version control, no workflow for review or continuous testing and integration, no ability to do lots of custom things, that did not stop it from running the planet. I mean if you did the VBA version of Thanos-snapping half of all VBA code out of existence, most of society would cease to function within a week.
Power Automate is going to replace VBA soon because VBA can no longer talk to web pages thanks to the end of Internet Explorer and lack of VBA updates. And like VBA, Power Automate has all of the same problems - no concept of code review, version control, history, logging, actually its worse.
VBA at least let you have custom Types and Classes but in Power Automate everything, literally everything, is a global variable. Power Automate is lower code than VBA. But I think it will be used even more.
Because it is already installed on every almost every office computer in the world. This is the only tool ordinary Ops people will have available to them to automate stuff, so that is what will get used.
- YurgenJurgensen 3y agoSo how long until we get the scenario "Billion dollar company suffers major outage of business-critical system because person that wrote Power Automate script went on holiday for too long and their connections timed out"?